Internet forums falling to southeast Asian hackers

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I was just reading a thread on ArboristSite and it went down hard.

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Their main forum page appears to be back up but the subforums are still down:

Not Found
The requested URL /firewood-heating-wood-burning-equipment/ was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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It went down while I was reading a thread on the Firewood subforum around 1:00am. I posted a thread here:
Internet forums falling to southeast Asian hackers
 
It's not actually fully recovered yet and many of the forum sections are still unavailable.
 
As good a place to post it as any since the forum members that are AS members are primarily active in the Wood Shed.
 
BrotherBart said:
As good a place to post it as any since the forum members that are AS members are primarily active in the Wood Shed.
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Yep - that is exactly why I just moved it to the Inglenook.;lol;lol;lol

(I had to have been moving it while BroB was typing.)
 
;lol
 
Maybe I should lock up my firewood:eek:
 
Bad mouth Chinese saws and splitters and that is what happens....
 
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They seem to be up now... that site was always going down for various reasons though, back when I was over there a lot.

A similar site, TreeWorld.info is gone now. Eric is being sued (deservingly so) and he took the site down for good.
 
Was up for a bit,down for past 45 minutes or so again.
 
Looks like they are still fixing the hacks. A lot of the headings are in Spanish there today. Amusing... (looks like the personal settings were all hacked there).
 
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Yes, and backup the backups. I used to do daily backups for a military contractor, and I made 2 sets of 8mm data tapes; one stayed in my desk local and one went to a rad hardened storage facility off-site.

As for AS... they use vBulletin, which is a widely used forum tool that has a huge number of sites. As a result are the target of many worldwide hacking efforts (especially in south Asia). I do not know where the AS servers/data storage are hosted from. It could be either a vBulletin or a server farm HW hack. More likely vBulletin, as it seems that there are a lot of potential hacking holes in that SW. They have had a lot of problems on AS over the years, and were typically down for a day to several days periodically in the years that I posted there.

Recent vBulletin hacks in India/Pakistan:

http://thehackernews.com/2013/09/major-vbulletin-based-websites-are.html
 
Seems to have happened again. Every AS link I try to follow from Google is redirecting to some spam advertising site. I have an extension that hides the ads, but still can't see the page I was trying to get to; I just get an empty screen with a nonfunctional 'skip this ad' button in the corner.
 
Okay, this one wasn't so hard to deal with. I used a javascript blocker to disable "linkbucks.com" and "dyo.gs" and AS is now functioning normally for me.
 
Jon1270 said:
Okay, this one wasn't so hard to deal with. I used a javascript blocker to disable "linkbucks.com" and "dyo.gs" and AS is now functioning normally for me.
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Huh? Are those new tree species? Never heard of 'em.
 
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